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Replacing old HD with SSD - product key question
The hard drive in my laptop is dying. I am upgrading to an SSD this weekend. I have a couple of hopefully quick questions.
My laptop originally came with Windows 8.1. As soon as I was able to I did the free upgrade to Windows 10. I really do not want to purchase a copy of Windows 10. I do have a partition on my hard drive that will allow me to create a bootable installation USB drive. But I think that would be 8.1 again (original OS). Yesterday my computer updated to the 1803 update for Windows.
I see there is a tutorial on the use of the Media Creation Tool and/or Rufus. I can follow that. My question is if my product key will be valid with a new hard drive? Or will my product key only work for an 8.1 installation?
Thank you in advance for any help that you can give. It is very much appreciated.